[Pulp-dev] No 'result' field for a Task in Pulp3

[Brian Bouterse]

Yes a 'summary' or 'result' field would be distinctly valuable from the
progress reporting. Whatever data gets put in a 'summary' field I think
needs to be structured in a way that the CLI can parse and show it
beautifully. I don't have a clear idea of what that looks like across
different plugin types, but if there are ideas of a structure getting those
written out would be good. Is adding a field like that the kind of thing
that would go in the MVP [0] for Pulp3 or on the future feature list [1]?

As an update on the current state of things. The "result" field was removed
as part of [2].

[0]: https://pulp.plan.io/projects/pulp/wiki/Pulp_3_Minimum_Viable_Product
[1]: https://pulp.plan.io/projects/pulp/wiki/31+_Ideas_(post_MVP)
[2]: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/2675

-Brian

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Jeff Ortel <jortel at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 03/28/2017 12:16 PM, Brian Bouterse wrote:
> > Today on a call an observation was made that Pulp3 does not need
> 'results' for a task. All non-error info
> > about what happened during a task is associated with it's associated
> "Progress Report" objects [0].
>
> The progress report is a snapshot of what a running task is currently
> doing and metrics on how much progress
> has been made.  In part so users can know progress is begin made and
> estimate the task's completion.  The
> "result" report /could/ provide an indicator of success and a
> summary/detail of work completed.  These two
> things seem completely different.  I'm not advocating for a "result", just
> pointing out the differences.
>
> >
> > Is there a use case where 'result' is meaningful that we preclude by
> removing it?
> >
> > I created the task [1] to rename 'result' to 'error' since we still need
> a field to track fatal exceptions
> > which was one of the purposes of the results field in the existing pulp3
> design. Feel free to comment on if we
> > should do [1] either here or in Redmine.
> >
> > [0]: https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/3.0-dev/app/pulp/app/
> models/progress.py#L15
> > [1]: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/2675
> >
> > -Brian
> >
> >
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